A haven for the brokenhearted

There’s a place for everything in this world—New York for theater, Paris for romance, even Roswell for alien sightings. And in Beth Kendrick’s charming new novel, Cure for the Common Breakup, there’s a perfect place for the brokenhearted—fictional Black Dog Bay, Delaware.

Flight attendant Summer Benson needs somewhere to nurse her aching heart, not to mention her battered ego. On the heels of a plane crash that left her physically scarred, it’s her emotional baggage that has apparently cost her one very attractive boyfriend, who dumps instead of proposes to her. When Summer learns about Black Dog Bay, she checks herself out of the hospital and into the Better Off Bed-and-Breakfast, where cell phones are confiscated by the inn’s owner—to prevent desperate late-night calls to the ex—and where bonfires to burn relationship relics are scheduled on a regular basis.

7 questions with . . . Beth Kendrick

Our Top Pick in Romance for May 2013 is Beth Kendrick's funny and charming new contemporary romance, The Week Before the Wedding. Romance columnist Christie Ridgway called it "perfect for the upcoming wedding season," so we had to pick Kendrick's brain about weddings, hot guys and great books.Describe your book in one sentence....

Romance Column by Sandy Huseby

When he proposed, she ran away in a panic. Ten years later, the high school sweethearts come face-to-face again in Beth Kendrick's side-splitting, tear-streaked ode to teen love rekindled, My Favorite Mistake. Faith Geary has been on the run ever since leaving Lindbrook, Minnesota, to become a globetrotting travel writer. Her sister Skye's desperate phone call drags her back to deal with a...